October 07, 2010 07:41 PM UTC

Financial Firms: 68% to Dems in Jan 2009; 58% to Repubs in Jul 2010

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• by: CoalCreekWildfire

Financial, Insurance, and Real Estate firms shifted their candidate giving from favoring Democrats 2:1 in January 2009 to favoring Republicans by 16% in July 2010.

Brody Mullins and Alicia Mundy published this chart on the WSJ Politics page (http://on.wsj.com/ctW27q) on 9/21/2010 as part of a series depicting corporate PAC giving to candidates. The data came from the Center for Responsive Politics.

Brody Mullins and Alicia Mundy at the WSJ published a set of graphs showing the swing in corporate political giving from left to right.

Brody Mullins and Alicia Mundy, Corporate Political Giving Swings Toward the GOP, WSJ.com Politics, 9/21/2010, http://on.wsj.com/ctW27q